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 Found today an a garden on the edge of a coastal bush 20km North of Durban, KZN, South Africa. Size around 8mm I would guess. 5 Pics:

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 Possibly Diasemopsis meigenii (Westwood, 1837).
 
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 Thank you John! I will have a look.
 
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